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| October Reads |
October Wrap-Up
- Finished: 22
- Started but not finished: 1
- Total pages read: 3,603
- Average rating: 4.25
Twenty-two books, are you kidding me? To be honest, only two of them were novels, and they were the only two books that I rated. I read R.F. Kuang’s dark academia historical fantasy Babel (4.5/5 stars). The themes in that book were hugely important, but unfortunately I didn’t quite love it enough to give it five stars. The second book I finished was Heather Fawcett’s light academia fantasy Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (4/5 stars), which was a perfect cozy fall read.
Old Schoolbooks Project
The rest,
that is the twenty other books, were my old schoolbooks from the first to the
sixth grades. I had kept a box of old schoolbooks, and I decided it would be
interesting to revisit them and see what it was that I should have learned in school.
Most of them were exercise books for homework assignments, and I didn’t
actually read every single page. But I’m still counting them as read.
It was fun to read those books, and it was surprising how little I remembered from them. The one book I remembered the best (and the one I also liked the most) was my first grade ABC-book. I still remember some of the stories, as well as the first sentence I ever read. It was such an aha moment to realize how reading worked! My second favorite was my fifth-grade history book. History was one of my favorite subjects in school, and I’m a little sad I couldn’t keep more of my history books from school. It was also fun to look at the exercise books and see what answers I had written to the assignments. Some of my answers were quite funny!
I still have a few books from my high school years, and I’m hoping to read a few of them in November. As those are textbooks with a lot more pages, they will take a longer time to finish, though.
November Hopefuls
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| November Hopefuls |
I’m
currently reading Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows, and I’m planning to finish that
as well as the second book in the duology, Crooked Kingdom, in November. When
it comes to nonfiction, I have few books about the ancient Greek novels
borrowed from the library, and I’m also planning to finish at least two of the
high school textbooks.
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If you want to see more about the books I read in October, check out my reading wrap-up video below:
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